{"id":33463,"date":"2012-12-02T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33463"},"modified":"2012-12-02T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T17:50:18","slug":"what-a-pity-that-america-lies-so-far-away-from-here-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33463","title":{"rendered":"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hca_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hca_0003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hca_0003-600x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1874, Andersen received a present of w. c. Bryant&#8217;s Picturesque America and 200 dollars. The money paid for the book had been collected from among American schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What a pity that America lies so far away from here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hans Christian Andersen never managed to visit America, that distant, fabulous continent. But he dreamt and wrote about it -and today children gather round his statue in Central Park to listen to the great Danish writer&#8217;s fairy tales.<\/p>\n<p>By Erik Haugaard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Hans Christian Andersen \u2013 Danish Journal 1976\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=19412\">From\u00a0Hans Christian Andersen \u2013 Danish Journal 1976<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sider:<a title=\"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 1.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33463\"> 1<\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 2.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33457\">2<\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 3.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33459\">3<\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 4.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33461\">4<\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"What a pity that America lies so far away from here 5.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33455\">5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1874, Andersen received a present of w. c. Bryant&#8217;s Picturesque America and 200 dollars. The money paid for the book had been collected from among American schoolchildren. What a pity that America lies so far away from here Hans Christian Andersen never managed to visit America, that distant, fabulous continent. But he dreamt and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33463\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a pity that America lies so far away from here 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-33463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33475,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33463\/revisions\/33475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}